Don't pretend, everyone knows you're the villain!

Xi Mingzhu has been asleep for two days and hasn't woken up yet. During this time, Lu Tiannan fed her water, but she couldn't eat anything and could only rely on drinking water to survive.

Two days later, it was Jiang Muyu who woke up first.

As soon as Jiang Yuzhou saw Jiang Muyu's eyeballs rolling under his eyelids, he immediately stood up.

"Xiao Yu." He rushed to get food and water without even calling out, as if afraid he might have forgotten something.

Jiang Muyu has been having recurring dreams these past two days, dreams that are overshadowed by the pain of searching for someone.

I dreamt of my childhood, and of fighting Jiang Yuzhou inside the fence.

His threats were actually being carried out under his control. One shouldn't harbor evil intentions; if he hadn't considered treating Jiang Yuzhou cruelly, he would never have done such a thing, even under his control.

His lips moved for a long time before he finally uttered a sound: "Uncle..."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Yuzhou placed the items on the bedside table and handed over a water glass.

"Drink some water first, and eat something to tide you over. You can have some porridge later. You've been sleeping for two days, so you can't eat too much at once."

Jiang Muyu held the water glass; the temperature was just right for drinking before it was handed to him, as always.

A pang of sadness and guilt welled up in my heart.

"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have hit you."

"I shouldn't have been so easily misled; it was I who harbored evil intentions."

Jiang Yuzhou listened quietly. The puppeteer's control required enticing the puppet with its inner desires. The barrier that even his mental control couldn't break through was easily breached by the puppeteer.

What exactly is Jiang Muyu thinking?

"It's not your fault. Xiao Yu, we haven't seen each other for years, so I don't know what you're thinking. I want to know, what did the puppeteer use to bewitch you?"

"..." Jiang Muyu held the teacup and slowly sipped it.

Jiang Yuzhou felt helpless. Children all have secrets as they grow up, and as an elder, there was no reason for him to pry.

"It's okay if you can't tell me, you should rest first."

Jiang Yuzhou was pulled by Jiang Muyu before he could leave, and Jiang Muyu grabbed his clothes and tried to stop him.

"Little uncle..."

Jiang Yuzhou looked at Jiang Muyu in surprise, then chuckled and explained, "I'm just going out for a short while, it won't be long."

Jiang Muyu shook his head slowly.

"I mean, you are the source of my being bewitched."

"It was I who had ill intentions towards my uncle, but I didn't do anything. I just wanted to stay by his side, and I wanted to be with him forever."

Jiang Yuzhou pondered the words he had just heard. He had initially thought it was just a child's possessiveness, but now it seemed to be more than just possessiveness.

Harboring ill intentions? When did it begin? Perhaps it was the shock of his leaving the Jiang family that misled Xiao Yu?

They are uncle and nephew; there's no way that could be possible.

Jiang Muyu gripped Jiang Yuzhou's clothes tightly, afraid that the other would leave like this.

In a way that no one had ever seen before, she pleaded humbly, "Uncle, don't abandon me. If you want to get rid of me, just kill me yourself. Anyway, nobody else wants me."

"Don't talk nonsense, I won't abandon you." Jiang Yuzhou couldn't figure these things out for a while, perhaps it was more of an instinctive escape, he didn't want to get involved with Jiang Muyu in a relationship that went beyond kinship.

They are uncle and nephew, and even if they aren't blood relatives, that's all that matters. No matter how many people she's slept with, Jiang Muyu must never be among them.

Suppressing the turmoil in his heart, Jiang Yuzhou calmly explained his next move to Jiang Muyu.

“The puppeteers are the Madman’s men. They hurt you and Shen Yi, and Lu Tiannan and I don’t intend to let them get away with it.”

"Only a few players with distinctive features are visible in the field of vision. It is still impossible to determine whether the other players are members of the Madmen."

"Now that you're awake, I'll go discuss with Lu Tiannan when to make an example of you. The puppeteer is just the beginning; the madman's disappearance is the end."

Jiang Muyu released his grip upon hearing this, but his tone remained firm.

"I'll go as well."

Jiang Yuzhou frowned upon hearing this, "You just woke up, now is not the time for you to get involved."

"I'm going, I'm completely fine now." With that, she threw back the covers and prepared to get out of bed.

"It's just a matter of discussing it; there's no point in you going now."

"If I don't go, my uncle probably won't tell me what he's going to do next."

Jiang Yuzhou couldn't help but feel a headache coming on; the child had grown up and was no longer easy to fool.

Jiang Muyu belatedly realized that he didn't know where his rabbit mask had gone; he quite liked that mask.

"Uncle, I'm not being unreasonable. Let's choose one of the two."

"I choose option two," Jiang Yuzhou said without hesitation.

Jiang Muyu smiled gently.

"Don't rush, listen to the whole story before you choose."

"First, I went with my uncle to discuss how to deal with the madman; second, my uncle also slept with me."

"..." Jiang Yuzhou gritted his teeth, his peach blossom eyes half-closed, and he was very suspicious of what the point of this brat giving two options was.

What's the difference between giving the second option and not giving it?

Jiang Muyu chuckled and said slowly, "I've heard a lot about Uncle. Uncle has slept with quite a few people, right? Adding me wouldn't be a big deal. Is it that I don't meet Uncle's standards? I think I'm pretty good-looking, and I had quite a few suitors in my original world."

"Xiao Yu, we are uncle and nephew, don't cross the line."

Jiang Yuzhou sealed off all possibilities with a single sentence.

Jiang Muyu was hurt inside, but his smile remained unchanged.

"Okay, then Uncle has made his choice. I'll go with Uncle to see Lu Tiannan."

Jiang Yuzhou slowly closed his eyes; he had no choice. From the very beginning, he had been misled into a multiple-choice question, led by the nose. He still lacked vigilance towards Jiang Muyu.

The person in front of me is no longer the boy I remember; he's still stuck in the old ways of getting along, and that won't do.

"Uncle, why do you seem hesitant? Are you afraid I'll get involved and harmed?"

Jiang Yuzhou looked quietly at Jiang Muyu, who had asked the question.

“I wanted to stay by my uncle’s side and have the opportunity to fight alongside him, but he gave it to others but refused to give it to me, which hurt me a lot.”

"Uncle can ignore my feelings, but he must not put himself in danger and try to push me away. Unless I, Jiang Muyu, am a dead man, I will not allow such a thing to happen."

"Uncle, I'm not a child anymore. I won't be that fool so easily again. By the way, Uncle, you don't know, do you? There's a prop called a witch puppet. Its function is to be a scapegoat... Uncle, if you don't take me with you, whatever harm you suffer, I will take all the damage. If you die, I will die mysteriously in a place you can't see."

Jiang Muyu spoke casually and nonchalantly throughout, yet every word he uttered in that light and airy tone forced Jiang Yuzhou to take it seriously.

Even if they had no idea of ​​the existence of any witchcraft puppets.

But he dared not gamble on something like that.

Jiang Yuzhou didn't dare gamble with Jiang Muyu's life, and Jiang Muyu had calculated this before saying such a thing.